Playing it will bring out the nastiest, greediest, darkest, most paranoid aspects of your character

Right-thinking nasty, greedy paranoics everywhere will doubtless be as horrified as I was to learn that a copy of the game was seized by police at Kingsnorth climate camp last week because the balaclava included with the game “could be used in a criminal act”.

Well yes, of course. After all, it has “EVIL” written on it in big red letters. What else would you be planning to do with it?

They never miss a trick, do they, with their sophisticated intelligence-led policing methods.

I was disappointed by the game itself though. It seems to always end up in a stalemate, which might provide us with an important moral lesson about the futility of war but does mean the joke ends up wearing pretty thin. If I want a moral lesson in gaming, I’ll stick with The Landlord’s Game.